"I'm doing what so many others have done through Kickstarter and other fundraising sites - try to raise money to print in large quantities, except I'm cutting out the middle-man," Cloonan wrote on her blog.

The project is the standalone follow-up to her 2011 self-published project Wolves.

"The Mire is a self-contained story set on the eve of battle, when a humble squire is given the task of delivering a letter to a decomposing castle in a swamp," she said.

"Met with mysterious apparitions, he slowly unveils the truth about why he was sent there, as his past is re-written over the course of 22 pages."

Cloonan is also offering incentives to those who donate more, including original character sketches.